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regarding whicli, 1. Mr. C. W. Dale mentions (E. M. M. 

 V. p. 77) having found an individual in the larval state feeding 

 on melilot at Charmouth, in October, 1867, which, after duly 

 changing to pupa, died in the act of emerging at the end 

 of March, 1868. 2. At page 114, vol. iv. E. M. M., Mr. 

 Buckler relates the fact of Mr. Jeffrey having observed a 

 fresh-looking ? Edusa depositing her eggs (fiertile) at the 

 end of August. 3. Mr. Ingram, at page 90 of the same 

 volume, records a similar occurrence; and further on, at 

 page 211, mentions having found eggs o^ Edusa on Aug. 

 21, which hatched five days after, and from which he ma- 

 naged to rear a $ imago on the 7th of October. 



Lyc^na Artaxerxes, Fab., versus L. Medon, Hufnagel 

 (Agestis, S. v.). 

 In an able and deeply interesting contribution to the En- 

 tomologist's Monthly Magazine (vol. iv. p. 73), Professor 

 Zeller treats of the earlier stages of Lyccena Medon, and 

 terminates by indicating a doubt as to the correctness of the 

 generally accepted view that L» Artaxer'xes and Medon 

 pertain to one species. Since then he has had the opportu- 

 nity of bringing this suspicion to the test, and is now tole- 

 rably well convinced that each must rank as a species 

 distinct from the other. [See Stet. Ent. Zeit. 1868, pp. 404, 

 405.*] 



Re Sphinx convolvuli. 

 The Reverend John Helhns, assisted by his friend Mr. 

 D'Orville, who has had unusual opportunities of making 

 careful observations and dissections on a rather extensive 



* A translation of this exhaustive paper will appear in the pages of 

 the " Entomologist's Monthly Magazine" for January, 1869. 



